Hi, ext Jeffrey Mark Siskind wrote: > > I installed openssh on an N810. I logged into a remote Linux machine, > > tunneling X, and ran emacs. The window came up on my N810 and I was able to > > use the remote emacs (the very little that I tried). But I then clicked on the > > "V" (i.e. the underlined down caret icon next to the X icon at the top of the > > - > > window, which I presume is minimize). And then I was not able to reexpose and > > reselect the window. While native app windows have icons that appear on the > > left side of the root window, this did not. And when I click on the icon at > > the llower left of the screen it popped up a menu of two windows but did not > > include the remove X window. > > > > Is there are way to reexpose/reselect/refocus a remove X window with the > > default Maemo window manager? > > > > Jeff (http://www.ece.purdue.edu/~qobi) > > You need to have a .desktop file installed which specifies the WM_CLASS > X property of that window (and preferably also an icon to use for it). > > You can see the properties Emacs uses with the "xprop" utility from > the maemo x-debug-tools package: > http://maemo.org/development/tools/doc/x-debug-tools > > Thanks for the tip. Can I ask for a little more help? > > I created /usr/share/applications/hildon-navigator/emacs.desktop: > > /usr/share/applications/hildon-navigator $ ls -l emacs.desktop > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 55 Feb 5 21:32 emacs.desktop > /usr/share/applications/hildon-navigator $ cat emacs.desktop > [Desktop Entry] > Name=Emacs > WM_CLASS=Emacs > Type=default The window property is in X window under name WM_CLASS, but it's identified in the .desktop file with a slightly different field name, the desktop entry should look something like this: ---------------- [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Type=Application Name=mcen_ap_name Exec=/usr/bin/modest StartupWMClass=modest (these field names are in the freedeskop.org .desktop file specification) The WM_CLASS value should also probably given in lower case, when I tested Emacs on my desktop machine, xprop reported it first in lower case: WM_CLASS(STRING) = "emacs", "Emacs" > > > Then I did: > > $ rm -rf /home/user/.osso > > Then I rebooted. Why? I don't think either of these should be required, once you install the .desktop file, AFAIK it should show up in the applications menu. - Eero
